Original version of your post. One of the mods edited it so that it followed guidelines on theories.
Do the survey. Feel free to discuss retinol metabolism to death after, but spend like an hour or less helping out yourself and the rest of the community.
This new sub reddit has garnered 260 members in just over a week
Somebody has already started a thread there to promote the survey but it could do with more interaction in the comments section
Looks like a good place to try to recruit more Post Isotretinoin patients to the survey.
I know this is an old thread but I think its a great one. There’s also a relationship between Dopamine regulation and Androgens, which could also explain some of the sexual side effects like decreased penis sensitivity, ED, libido (altough libido is influenced by dopamine), etc. Great work putting together this together, @skorpio88. Im also curious as to how a complete liver detox could benefit us PAS guys.
Just wanna chime in that I have done high dose turmeric( with black pepper, both mixed in milk for extra fat) and it did nothing.
I have extremely deficient vitamin D and my vitamin A reading is over the recommended amount, as seen in my latest blood tests. Feel free to check the thread out and start a discussion.
I absolutely agree with that. One month before i used an antibiotic named Flagyl for two weeks. It made my erections 10 times stronger, increased sperm volume and gave me libido after months. I was shocked of course. Than i found out that antibiotic with it’s other name “metronidazole” is a MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor). That means it inhibits an enzyme named monoamine oxidase which is a dopamine catabolizing enzyme. At first i thought that antibiotic has helped me because it decreased the inflammation in my body. But then i found out that MAOI’s are a type of antideppressants. I am almost sure that my anhodenia, loss of libido, loss of enjoyment of anything, erection problems, sleeping issues are all related dopamine or maybe some more neurostereoids in brain. I am not sure if it’s about the quantity of these neurostereoids but the receptors they work with. I don’t know what you guys think but that experience made me think maybe this case is more solvable than we imagine.
Take a MAOI antidepressant and find out I suppose. Risky but hey…
